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Chips or sewage? New Westminster still pondering proposed facility BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

The City of New Westminster has narrowed down the location of a proposed Sapperton District Energy facility, but has yet to determine whether wood or sewage will be used to generate energy. The city is exploring district energy as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by introducing renewable sources of heating for buildings and as being a long-range investment in sustainable infrastructure. The types of renewable energy sources being studied for the facility are sewer heat recovery and wood chip combustion. Mark Allison, the city’s manager of strategic initiatives and sustainability, said a city-owned site at 435 Canfor Ave. in the Braid industrial area would be the most appropriate site for a facility, if it moves forward. A “satellite energy centre” would be located at Royal Columbian Hospital when it is redeveloped. “We will have a pipe up to the property line,” he said. “They will take our energy from that.” A staff report states that Fraser Health has decided it doesn’t want to include an energy plant for on-site sewage heat recovery in its redevelopment plans for Royal Columbian Hospital, but is interested in switching the hospital to a lowcarbon thermal energy source when the off-site renewable energy plan is forecast to come online in 2019/2020. Sapperton has been deemed to be a good place to pursue a district energy system because of upcoming projects such as future development at Royal Columbian Hospital, the Brewery District and Sapperton Green. The city has yet to determine whether the energy would be generated by

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Protesting: A teacher pickets outside Glenbrook Middle School. Teachers have voted in favour of full-scale strike action, and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation says a full-scale strike will start on Tuesday, June 17. There will also be a provincewide study session on Monday, June 17 – meaning teachers will not be at school sites.

Teachers ready to walk out School superintendent says to keep kids home Monday BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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New Westminster superintendent John Gaiptman is asking that families keep their children home on Monday due to the fact that there will be no teachers on site as a result of ongoing job action. He is also urging those who want to take summer school to register immediately, because it will make it easier for the district to arrange. “We are still planning as if there will still be summer school,” he said. In terms of report cards, as of Thursday, the Labour Relations Board ruled that teachers must administer final exams in Grades 10 to 12 and must compile and submit final marks for Grade 12 students by June 20.

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“Right now, the only thing I can say for sure is that Grade 12 students will be getting their final marks – sometimes it’s a term mark if they are writing an exam or a final mark if there is no exam attached to it,” Gaiptman said. As well, testing for designations for students with special needs will continue, the superintendent said. There was a “massive turnout and incredible support” from New Westminster teachers in this week’s vote for a full-scale walkout, the local union president says. Grant Osborne, president of the New Westminster Teachers’ Union, said they don’t share the exact numbers local by local, but noted that the response from city teachers was definitely in line with the overwhelming push – 86 per cent voted in favour – toward ramping up strike action, despite the fact that the union is no longer able to offer strike pay during a full-scale walkout.

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“It’s a record-setting mandate,” Osborne said, summing up the results, which were announced Tuesday evening. As a result of the vote, B.C. teachers plan to launch a full-scale strike starting on Tuesday, June 17. In addition, the BCTF has provided notice that Stage 2 job action will be extended to Monday, June 16, with all teachers participating in provincewide study sessions. Schools will not be picketed, but teachers will not be on site, according to a BCTF media release. Despite the ongoing labour strife, Osborne remains optimistic that a deal can be struck between the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association and British Columbia Teachers’ Federation before the end of the month. “We are hearing from the government that they are invested in getting a deal

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Too tempting? Pictured at left is an assortment of the ﬂavoured tobacco products that MLA Judy Darcy would like to see banned. Darcy, who’s the NDP’s health critic, wants tougher legislation to help protect young people. Larry Wright/

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Sweet ﬂavours lure young people BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

Pretty packages and tasty flavours are being used to entice young people to take up smoking. That’s the view of New Westminster MLA Judy Darcy and some youth who are calling for a ban on flavoured tobacco products that come in a variety of fruit, ice cream and candy flavours, including peach, chocolate and cherry. “This is creating a resurgence in smokers in my hometown. I’ve seen it,” said Douglas College student Brandon Eyre, who moved to New Westminster from Grand Forks. “As the older generation starts to quit smoking, I’ve seen most of the kids in high school take up smoking.” Eyre suffered from asthma as a child, so never wanted to try smoking or didn’t have to deal with friends who pressured him to give it a try. He said flavoured tobacco products target young smokers. “The flavour and the smell is very sweet,” he said. “It’s very strong. It smells like candy. The peach smells like a peach, a peach candy. It’s quite surprising.” Eyre noted that many flavoured tobacco products don’t even look like they are cigarettes or cigarillos. “Most of the packaging is either made to look like it’s candy or makeup,” he said. “It’s very easily hidden, which I know from a number of my friends that their parents didn’t know they smoked.” Most troubling for Eyre is that many of the

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Dangerous? New Democrat health critic Judy Darcy, centre, along with NWSS grad Sabu Fatemi, left, and Douglas College student Brandon Eyre at a press conference held to call for a ban on ﬂavoured tobacco products. flavoured tobacco products don’t have warning labels, unlike regular cigarette packages that have warnings and photos showing some of the devastating effects of smoking. “On the bigger packages of flavoured tobacco there is a warning, but because flavoured

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City’s Pattullo plan gets City supports Fraser trail support from biz group The Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Association is onboard with the city’s plan for the Pattullo Bridge. The city recently released a position paper, A Reasonable Approach – A Perspective on the Pattullo Bridge, which supports a four-lane, tolled Pattullo Bridge. Andy Bradshaw, the association’s president, recently wrote to city council stating

that the association supports the city’s position. The decision comes after a membership meeting where the document was discussed, an online survey of its members, and several discussions at the board level. “The BIA is proud to stand strong with the City of New Westminster on this issue,” he wrote. – Theresa McManus

A trail network along the Fraser River is navigating its way through the planning process. Experience the Fraser’s concept to connect the Town of Hope to the Salish Sea (Georgia Strait) by a trail network and the Fraser River. “I think this is something that is going to be an economic generator and

tourist attraction right across the Lower Mainland,” said Coun. Bill Harper Council has endorsed the project in principle and directed staff to work with other Experience the Fraser partners to advance the city’s components of the project and to track the overall process. See www.metrovancouver.org and search for Experience the Fraser.

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burning wood chips to produce hot water heating, or a sewage heat recovery system where effluent is diverted to a facility where energy is extracted using heat pumps and flow is returned to the sewer mainline. Since presenting council with preliminary analysis about the plan in November 2013, financial and air quality studies have been done, the city has learned more about the redevelopment plans for Royal Columbian Hospital and a location for a proposed district energy facility has been determined. A study by Levelton Consultants Ltd. determined that sewage heat recovery results in lower air emissions than wood chip heating, but both would result in significant reductions to greenhouse gas

emissions than the existing “business-asusual” heating methods. The city is holding an open house on Thursday, June 19 to provide findings from an air quality study that’s been done and the latest information about the redevelopment plans for Royal Columbian Hospital. The meeting will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 403 East Columbia St., from 6 to 8 p.m. A staff report states that a district energy system in Sapperton would help the city achieve its greenhouse gas emission targets, diversify the city’s electrical utility revenue source and support the redevelopment of Royal Columbian Hospital by helping the Fraser Health Authority to achieve its provincially mandated requirement to become carbon neutral in its operation.

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Supporting discrimination is simply wrong basis of your sexual orientation. Thousands of B.C. lawyers have TWU’s controversial covenant forvoted to reverse the B.C. Law Society’s bids sex outside marriage and defines decision to accredit Trinity Western marriage as a sacred relationship University’s new Christian law school. between man and woman. While the final decision still rests The covenant covers all with the Law Society’s board staff and students at the of governors, known as private institution based in benchers, the 3,210 to 968 vote THE RECORD Langley. can hardly be ignored. After the Law Society of The arguments for and Upper Canada in Ontario voted against against TWU’s law school’s accreditTWU’s accreditation, essentially barring ation pits the red herring of “religious grads from practising in Ontario, the freedom” against the hard-fought right school shot back. to not be discriminated against on the

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support its discriminatory position by accrediting it. Religious freedom is an important value, but it’s not our only value, particularly when it infringes on the rights of others. We believe love between consenting adults is more important than the right to restrict love between consenting adults. We hope Law Society benchers make an ethical choice, because there are two things this province doesn’t need more of: lawyers and intolerance.

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ment would be on the school’s he cause is just and the property but was recently effort noble, but the fundstartled to find out that the playraising mountain is steep ground equipment was comand the boulder huge. Is such valiant effort necessary when aid pletely within the new St. Mary’s Park boundary … on public city is so nearby? land. We are familiar with the first Why is our city not using incredibly Herculean campaign development cost charge park of the John Robson Elementary reserve funds to pay for the School parent advisory coundevelopment of the park and the cil to raise an extraordinary new playground equipment at amount of money ($60,000) for St. Mary’s Park? the new playground Why such council equipment at the new parsimony with their Qayqayt Elementary CHRISTOPHER BELL decision to not direct School. We shared in DCC money to St. the anticipation of Mary’s Park and playground victory… and then shared the when just to the south the city heartbreak of defeat as funds were awarded to another worthy recently funnelled $6 million DCC park reserve money to cause. Westminster Pier Park? Our mayor and council We are all risking further watched the heartbreak and heartbreak if the John Robson could have salved the emotional Elementary PAC national wound – but chose not to. Why? campaign fails again – and no We are aware of the John playground equipment will be Robson Elementary School PAC’S new national campaign to bought for the public St. Mary’s Park and, even if they win, they seek funding to pay for some of will be $60,000 short of their the new playground equipment goal. Then what – more frustraat Qayqayt Elementary, but even tion and heartbreak? if they win the $20,000 top prize Our council could prevent the they will be $60, 000 short of the heartbreak if they relieved the required funds. burden of playground equipWhat will be the outcome: ment fundraising from the John victory, or more heartbreak? Robson PAC and paid for the Why is our council so indifnew St. Mary’s Park playground ferent to the plight of the John equipment from DCC park Robson Elementary School PAC reserves or just paid for the playwhen the solution is simple and ground equipment from the genat easily at hand? eral fund because it’s the right I always thought (through and charitable thing to do. the months of the first fundraisChristopher Bell is a New ing campaign) that the Qayqayt Westminster resident. Elementary playground equip-

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Re: Why do we have to bargain for the best? Opinion, The Record, June 6. Thank you, Christina Myers, for your support for quality education. “Class size and composition” are not well understood but are so important that teachers took 0-0-2 per cent back in 1999 in order to improve the classroom for both teachers and students. Your analogy to police officers having to bargain for speed limits in their contracts is spot on! In the past, I did have classes of 32 “regular” students that made for a full, but manageable, class – but it’s not “class size” alone that is the issue. I currently have a class of only 28 where eight are “identified” (as English as an additional language, behaviour, cognitive challenges and gifted), and it is not manageable. In addition to those who are

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“identified,” there are those who suffer with anxiety, illness and family strife whom we are also trying to support in their learning as best we can. Where there are more than two “identified” students in a class, the class size needs to be reduced and there needs to be a limit on the number of identified students in one class. This is how class composition relates to class size. Parents, educators and students get this – it is unfortunate that politicians don’t.

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neighbours? We do have sensitive, good, considerate neighbours, eh … Do our neighbours allow high traffic through their residential areas? I do not think so, but it is OK for them for the traffic to go through New Westminster. Now, Coquitlam wants a two-lane bridge. We do not need anymore traffic in New Westminster, please. It is a no-brainer that having a two-lane bridge will increase traffic. Gee, do the simple math.

Questions to our neighbours: If the livability of your home is threatened, what will you do? Would you do nothing, let someone else decide for you or fight for it? This is what we are doing – fighting for our city, home, safety, children and so on. We are not chopped liver. We are living, breathing human beings (if we are able to breathe unpolluted air). The only way you will understand us is to walk in our shoes. Are you willing to do it? Catalina Trinidad, New Westminster

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Comment via RoyalCityRecord.com I Tim S.: There is a point at which the laws that are meant to protect us result in cheerless oppression. Granted, it is hard to argue a case against increased safety, but “nanny-laws” like this are a step too far in state supervision. It seemingly suggests that people are now incapable of acting responsibly, and that unless a new law is enacted people will act with no more conscience or common-sense than abject barbarians. Could these risks not be mitigated by other means, perhaps a bit of education. I mean some levity is in order here, a prohibition on burning garbage I can understand, but a little, contained campfire, even a propane fired one at that (?!), I find very hard to swallow. Does anyone remember the futuristic movie Demolition Man? A society with immensely strict laws seemed, on the surface, to be ‘pleasant’ and ‘tidy’, but in reality it was a dystopia, void of any real character and opportunities for human enjoyment. I’m sure that everyone can relate to the enjoyment of sitting around a campfire with friends. To think that this is now prohibited makes me sad, and even sadder when I imagine the bleak world which awaits us. PS: can anyone site a recent case where a responsible campfire resulted in harm (property or otherwise).

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Field trip ends in lockdown Tweedsmuir students kept in at Science World while police went after shooting suspect BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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A routine field trip put 22 kindergarten students from New Westminster in the vicinity of a shooting drama in Vancouver. Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary students were in lockdown at Science World following a morning shooting in Yaletown. The lockdown came to an end

Tuesday afternoon when the young students were loaded onto a bus at around 1:30 p.m., superintendent John Gaiptman told The Record. “The children, staff and parent volunteers arrived safely back to the school and counselling/debriefing supports have been made available,” said an update to parents, which was sent from Tweedsmuir’s principal, Patty Farris, on Tuesday. Her letter said, “events like these may affect siblings of the affected children and other children may also be concerned if they hear about the incident.” “It’s a traumatic experience, obviously, so we want to make sure that when they come back there is help

that is given, especially for the parents and teachers who have to remain strong during all of this,” Gaiptman said. According to a Vancouver Sun report, the 52-year-old owner of a Yaletown bike store was shot outside Starbucks at Davie Street and Marinaside Crescent. The shooting set off a gunfight with police and a bike pursuit around the seawall to Science World, where more shots were exchanged, and the 61-year-old suspect was shot by police, the Sun reported. The suspect was arrested and taken to hospital, where he remains in serious condition. twitter.com/nikimhope

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calling on the provincial government to ban the sale of flavoured tobacco in B.C. In April, she introduced a member’s bill in the legislature, which would amend the original Tobacco Control Act to prohibit the sale of flavoured tobacco products Darcy, who invited local youth to attend a June 10 press conference at her New Westminster constituency office, said recent statistics show that 53 per cent of young people who smoked used flavoured tobacco. “They go from peach to chocolate to pear, cherry – you name it,” she said. “They smell really sweet. They taste really nice so you don’t do the heavy coughing you normally do with tobacco. It makes it easier to smoke. It smells better. They don’t look like tobacco. When you see the display, it is really compelling. They can look

like a lip-gloss, lip pencil, chewing gum, a tin of mints. It is absolutely targeting youth.” Darcy, the B.C. NDP’s health critic, said current legislation doesn’t do enough to protect youth from the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine. Alberta has banned the sale of flavoured tobacco products, and Ontario and Manitoba are debating similar legislation. “The statistics on people dying of cancer are still very high. Six thousand people die every year of cancer in B.C. Tobacco is the single biggest cause of cancerrelated deaths,” she said. “Every year, 30,000 young people start up smoking.” Saba Fatemi said the issue of cancer has been close to her heart ever since her grandmother died from the disease a few years ago. That inspired her to join the Cancer Society Club at New Westminster

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Secondary School and serve as its it a try. She said the flavoured tobacco products are intended to leader in Grade 11 and 12. “We were trying to raise aware- draw in young smokers and the smaller packages (and ness in high school lower cost) also make about all these differit more affordable for ent carcinogens and youth. cancer among youth,” “I think teen“If you are already she said. “While we hooked on it as an were doing that it was agers are less shocking to see there afraid to smoke adult, you don’t need a flavour to keep you were people comgoing,” she said. “If ing in and doing the it because they you are a kid, that tasty opposite and luring in are less afraid flavour or good smell youth, using colour, attractivetastes,things they are going to encourages them to smoke that first time.” that make a product get caught.” Eyre has seen look less dangerous teenagers smoking and less threatening BRANDON EYRE flavoured tobacco to youth.” Douglas College student products around high Fatemi, a 19-yearschools. old who graduated “I think because it is such a from New Westminster Secondary last year, said many young people new thing, flavoured tobacco, not start smoking because they think a lot of adults are aware of it so it’s it is cool or someone they know easy to smoke flavoured tobacco smokes and they decide to give out in the open because you don’t

smell the tobacco. I think teenagers are less afraid to smoke it because they are less afraid they are going to get caught,” he told The Record. “It will generate smoke, you can still see it – but it smells nice. It’s a pleasant smell.” The Canadian Cancer Society has called for federal and provincial legislation to tackle the issue of flavoured tobacco products, including a ban of flavoured cigarillos. Those are small cigars that are packaged to look like candy, lipstick and markers. Eyre would like to see flavoured tobacco products banned so people like his little brother are never tempted to take it up. “He is 10 now. He is coming up to the age I expect kids to try things,” he said. “I am worried, because they are so sweet and they are so candy-like – he loves candy – that it will be an easy transition for him.”

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ill the City of New Westminster ever allow laneway homes to be built on single-family properties in the Royal City? The operators of a local company that builds and For more installs micro homes sure hope so. info, Micro homes – smaller dwellings, typically less scan than 1,000 square feet – have attracted more attention with Layar in recent years because of the high cost of real estate and limited rental stock in the Lower Mainland. Marc Saunders and Adele Fraser, who run Snap Microhomes, which has an office on Sixth Street, say their contemporary factory-built dwellings help property owners maximize the value of their real estate by adding one of the compact homes to their land. “If land is the valuable comNIKI HOPE modity, we’re not getting the most out of our single-family homes,” says Saunders, who told The Record he has a background in aerospace engineering and 30 years’ experience in building. Laneway homes are gaining notice since Vancouver legalized them in 2009. Since then more than 1,000 laneway house permits have been issued there, according to a December 2013 Vancouver Sun report. “Everyone calls them a different thing. Vancouver calls them laneway homes. They call them coach houses in North Vancouver. They call them garden suites in Coquitlam. If you look under planning, just about anywhere in North America, they are called accessory dwellings,” Saunders says. Whatever they’re called, the small dwellPat Tracy/THE RECORD ings bring with them additional options and revenue by providing on-property housing for In a snap: Adele Fraser helps run Snap Microhomes, a New Westrelatives or renters. minster-based company that builds smaller dwellings, which Saunders’ bet on the future of smaller help property owners maximize the value of their land. At left, an dwellings may or may not pay off in the Royal illustration of the company’s Pico series, which starts at $37,950. City, a town that hasn’t embraced density on single-family lots with as much zeal as Vancouver. The City of New Westminster is simply don’t want a sprawling home but still value havdrought, and it’s not going to end. It’s actually getstill reviewing the idea, but there’s no question ing land. ting worse,” he says. “Without going way off topic, we that the cost of land continues to remain out of reach for “We had one person come in (to the show space) and believe that one of the critical ways to combat some of many people in the Lower Mainland. say, ‘Oh, this would be perfect for me. I these problems is to be much more efficient in the hous“Land isn’t getting any cheaper. … would like to put one of these on my land ing that we use, because smaller houses use smaller population is growing, and water (shortand then build myself a 10,000-square-foot amounts of energy, smaller amounts of water – all of age) is going to be another crisis that those sorts of things, and so we’ve tasked ourselves to exacerbates the problem,” Saunders says. “Land isn’t getting any shop, so I can just play all day in my shop and come and live in my house. ‘ Because create solutions that are livable and don’t make people Snap Microhomes range in size from cheaper … population he’s single, he said, ‘I don’t need any more feel like they are living in just a little box.” 120 to 750 square feet, with prices spanis growing and water room than this,’” Fraser says. “There’s All of Snap’s standard units come equipped with an ning from $37,950 to $135,000. They’ve a wide variety of people that could use integrated rainwater collection system with 100 gallons kept their prices significantly lower than (shortage) is going to them.” storage. most laneway home builders in the area, be another problem Looking to Asia and Europe, “this is The homes are solar power ready and solar thermal Saunders says, because they want to old news,’ Saunders says. ready, have LED lighting, a high-performance building develop their product line and market it that exacerbates the “I think it really boils to down to ecoenvelope, energy star appliances and low-flush toilets. across North America, not just in Metro problem.” nomics more than anything else. A lot There are also options for photovoltaic and micro-geoVancouver. of people’s financial assets were really thermal systems. There is also a plan to introduce an off“We knew that that price point impacted during the debacle of 2008, and grid unit that can be placed in either an urban or rural wouldn’t work outside of the Vancouver MARC SAUNDERS Snap Microhomes they haven’t really recovered, so people setting, Saunders says. market,” Saunders says. “So our pricwant to be smart with their money,” he Arrival time after ordering is about eight weeks, ing reflects what would work in North says. according to Saunders, which means if the city ever does America.” Saunders warns that if we don’t start seriously consid- allow for laneway homes on single-family properties in The quaint homes aren’t just designed for laneway ering smarter density, we could end up like California. New West, it won’t be long before a Snap micro-home builders. There is also a market for cottage builders, “California has been in basically a 10-year could be up and running. those who want to live small for a green ethos or who

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It’s time to play again. For a second time, families from Qayqayt Elementary School – the new school slated to take over for John Robson Elementary – have applied for another playground grant. But they need all of the help they can get – that’s why they are urging fellow New Westminster residents to go online and vote at www.vote4robson. com. Voting goes until June 16, and the idea with the most votes at the end of this week will get a cheque for $20,000. Also, those who have a Facebook or Twitter account can get two extra daily bonus votes by sharing.

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The new elementary school is being built on the former St. Mary’s Hospital site in downtown New West and is slated to open in September. The current site of John Robson will house a middle school, which is expected to open in 2015.

Child-care pick

Speaking of Qayqayt elementary, the school will have a child-care centre with a familiar face. The Lower Mainland Purpose Society was selected as the child-care operator for the Qayqayt Elementary School Neighbourhood Learning Centre. “The New Westminster school district looks forward to expanding its partnership with the Lower Mainland Purpose Society in providing quality and affordable child care at the new Qayqayt School Neighbourhood Learning Centre,” said Casey Cook, trustee and chair of the neighbourhood learning centre

advisory committee. “The Neighbourhood Learning Centre programs will complement and support existing school and community programs and services.” The Neighbourhood Learning Centres are a part of a provincial government program that allows school districts to build additional community space at new schools. As part of the overall plan to build new schools in the city, the district secured funding through the program and plans to develop an accessible, inclusive and vibrant school that will act as a neighbourhood hub. The centres offer a range of programs and services to meet the diverse needs of the community. Programs and services are generally provided by non-profit groups, organizations, government-funded programs and community partners. The child-care centre is scheduled to open January 2015. For more information

on accessing the child care offered at Qayqayt, contact Felicia Costea at the Lower Mainland Purpose Society 604-526-2522 or email felicia.costea@purposesociety.org; Mike Graham at Westminster Children’s After School Society, 604540-1688 or email mgra ham@wcass.com.

Correction

In my column, which ran on Wednesday, I misspelled the name of a chemistry student from New Westminster Secondary School who is garnering many accolades for his skills. His name is David Yin, not Yi as it appeared in the article. As well, Yin qualified for the Olympiad Finals through the Canadian Chemistry Contest, not the Chemistry 13 exam as stated in the article. Do you have an item for Class Act? Send story ideas from local schools to Niki, nhope@royalcityrecord.com. You can also find her on Twitter, @nikimhope.

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For the love of music: The New Westminster and District Band poses in front of the Stanley Park totem poles prior to a European trip in 1978. The band is marking its 80th anniversary with a concert in Queen’s Park this weekend.

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What better way to spend Father’s Day than with a picnic in the park, listening to some first-class music and enjoying a birthday celebration? The New Westminster and District Concert Band is encouraging local residents to do just that. The band is holding a concert at Queen’s Park bandshell this Sunday, June 15 at 2 p.m. Not only is it Father’s Day and the kickoff for the city’s outdoor summer concert series, it also happens to be a celebration of the band’s 80th anniversary. “We encourage people to come, bring a picnic, use the barbecues, … make a day of it,” says John White, director of the concert band society. White leads the group’s senior band – one of four groups that are part of the society. There’s a beginner band, an intermediate band and a jazz band as well. All four groups will offer up pieces as part of the concert, and White is promising a diverse selection of music that will appeal to people of all ages. A highlight of the concert will be a piece by the senior band that’s a regimental march for the RCMP. Chosen to recognize the band’s long association with the RCMP, the piece has now become even more meaningful. “It now has more poignancy because of the incident in Moncton,” White notes. All told, the band family includes about 120 players from around the Lower Mainland, from new players up to those

with decades of experience – ranging in age from a Grade 9 student to a player who’s over 80 years old. The presence of both youth and adults is a wonderful combination for the band, White says. “They sit beside each other. The youth learn from the adults, and the adults gain that energy and enthusiasm,” he says. The senior band includes some music teachers, but for the most part the musicians are those who have gone on to do other things in their working day but still want to keep music in their lives. “They’re all playing at a substantially high level,” White says. “The senior band is playing exceptionally well right now.” The band hasn’t always included adult players. In fact, when it began in the 1930s, it was the Royal City Boys and Girls Band, directed by Arthur Delamont. For most of its history it has been a community band for youth players – including during the 1970s, when White served his first stint as its director. He left in 1979 when he moved to Kamloops, but upon his return to the Lower Mainland he took up with the band again about a dozen years ago. These days, band membership is open to players of all ages and skill levels. The beginner band will be on hiatus this coming year, due to a lack of membership, but White says they’re planning a push to recruit new members so that the beginners can return in the fall of 2015. For more about the band, check out www.nwdband.com or call John White at 604-788-1048.

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n impressive lineup of performers took to the stage during the Blind Beginnings Has Talent event. Blind Beginnings held its second annual talent show on June 7 at the Sapperton Pensioners’ Hall. The New Westminster-based organization seeks to empower blind and visually impaired children and youth and to support their families through a variety of workshops and programs. The top three finishers in last weekend’s talent show are all completely blind. Bridgett Robinson, an eight-year-old who taught herself to play the piano, took first place for her performance, which included singing while playing the piano. Clement Chou, a 22year-old who plays the guitar and sings, placed second. He’s been performing for many years and is one of the Blind Beginnings’ youth mentors. Placing third was 10year-old Ella Yu, who has been playing the violin for three-and-a-half years. Funds raised at the Blind Beginnings Has Talent event support the non-profit organization’s youth leadership in action program, which allows young people from various parts of B.C. to meet and develop their leadership and life skills. It also gives them a chance to meet and develop friendships with other youth who are visually impaired or blind.

Giving thanks

The Westies are grateful for assistance in helping with the installation of a Second World War relic at the Armoury on Queens Avenue. Devin Klassen, public affairs officer with the local Army Reserve Regiment and the Royal Westminster Regiment, says Pedre Contractors’ employees noticed some volunteers working tirelessly with inadequate tools and staffing to install a cement pad in front of the Armoury on Queens Avenue. He said the folks at Pedre Contracting used their own time, tools and materials to help create the pad.

“Foreman Robert Bertolini, together with Ian Lalley, Jordan Noble and Mitch Bartel, stepped up on their own accord during a work week in mid-May to offer thousands of dollars of expertise, equipment and materials so that the Royal Westminster Regiment could install a World War 2 troop carrier in time for the Melfa anniversary, an anniversary in which the regiment hosts and celebrates the accomplishments and veterans of the regiment in World War 2,” Klassen said in a press release. “Without their generous aid, there is no doubt the project would not have been completed in time. From commanding officer Lieutenant Col. Vernon and all the rest of the Westies, we extend our extreme gratitude to these fine men and Pedre Contractors.”

River crossing

The upcoming presentation of the New Westminster Historical Society will take a look at a topic that’s often making headlines. Crossing the Fraser is the topic of the society’s presentation on Wednesday, June 18. “There is talk daily about the Pattullo Bridge and the Fraser River crossings at New Westminster. This program is a photographic history of ‘crossing the Fraser’ at the Royal City – from canoes, sternwheelers and ferries to swing spans, a toll bridge, and rapid transit,” said a press release about the presentation. “Many people are not aware of the early ferries that crossed the Fraser here, and are intrigued by the ingenuity needed to cross the river before this method.” Images of the Pattullo Bridge, built in 1937, and other crossings will be part of the presentation that takes place on June 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the New Westminster Public Library. The program is free and everyone is welcome.

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Nonagenarians: From left: Mabel Wike, Al Vernon, Joanna Zabinsky, Bill Ward, Morgan McGrath, Emily Crawford and Sheila Northrop celebrated at the Sapperton Pensioners’ over-90 birthday festivities.

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Nine decades – and counting Sapperton Pensioners hold luncheon for nonagenarians The Sapperton Pensioners’ Association recently celebrated a significant milestone of several of its members. EachJune,theassociation holds an Over-90s luncheon to celebrate members who are 90 and older, or will reach the milestone this year. In addition to lunch, the event includes birthday cake (of course) and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday to You. Seven seniors were honoured at this year’s

event: Mabel Wike; Al Vernon; Joanna Zabinksy; Bill Ward; Morgan McGrath; Emily Crawford; and Sheila Northrop. While most of the Over-90s’ crew has been recognized in the past, Wike and Northrop are newbies in the Over90s’ celebration. The Sapperton Pensioners Hall holds activities at its hall at

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